Ticket-case.



PATENTED OCT. v25, 1904.

VNo, 773,103.

N0 MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

TICKET-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,103, dated October 25, 1904.

Application led March 21, 1904. Serial No.,199,166. `(ITomodel.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known thatI, ALBERT H. SELLARS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, inthe county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Ticket-Cases, of which the following is aspecification. My present invention relates to the construction and arrangement of that variety of ticket-cases adapted for the use of railroad ticket agents, which are designed to contain card tickets, as will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure l is a front elevationof a cabinet of a character suitable to embody the construction and arrangement involved in my present invention; Fig. 2, a plan view, on a somewhat enlarged scale, of one of the cardticket-holding drawers to which my present invention more particularly relates; Fig. 3,-a longitudinal vertical sectional view thereof at the point indicated `by the dotted line 3 3 in Fig'. 2; Fig. 4, a detail sectional view, on a still further enlarged scale, similar to a portion of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5, a detail sectional view asv seen when looking in the direction indicated by the arrows from the dotted lines inFigJLf Y The cabinet 21.as a whole is built at about the height of anordinary standing deskand preferably has aiat top or table portion 22 for the use of the agent when doing his work.

. Between said top and the bases 23 are a series of drawers, as indicated: The drawers'lt are designed for holding. coupon-tickets, and as the particular construction thereof is not involved in the present'case,but is claimed by me inmy separate application,Serial No. 165,072,the same will not'be furtherdescribed herein. f Y

In the arrangement ofl cabinet shown the central drawers 25 are those which are designed for containing card tickets and which embody my present invention. -In the arrangement shown I put two vrows of cardticket spaces or compartments lin the front end of each of these comparatively large drawers, dividing the same from leach other by the transverse partition 26'and from the remainder ofthe space in the vdrawers' by the transverse partitions 27 and separating them in the other direction by the thinner partitions 28. As best shown in Figs. 3 and 4, I make the bottoms ofthe card-ticket-holding spaces inclined, with the highest portion toward the front, so that I am enabled to easily pull olf the tickets v one by one, as may be required, by frictional contact of the fingers therewith. These inclined bottoms29 shouldbe open in the center, so as to permit the insertion of the fingers entirely beneath the tickets, the upward inclination leaving sufficient space at the front edges of said bottoms for this purpose. They may be mere ledges at the sides of the compartments, as shown in the drawings, or they may be continuous and out away centrally to provide the required linger-space. At the front edges of said bottoms and at the sides of each compartment I place vertical ribs 30, which serve as guides to keep the tickets in place. The distance between these guides and the walls of the compartments opposite the ticket-space is sufficiently large to permit the easy insertion of the fingers." In removing the tickets as the same are taken out for sale (usually one by one) the front corners vwill Lslide up these ribs, and these (having comparatively narrow surfaces) occasionbut little friction, butV permit the tickets to be pulled out-easily.

The drawers 25, are quite large and the ticket'- compartments just'described occupy only a portion of the space therein, which, however, is suiiicient to hold al suitable stock oftickets for current sales. The remainder of the space (behind the partition 27) is divided into plain`boXlikecompartments by means` of a cross-partition 3l and suitable longitudinal .partitions 32, these spaces being equal in number" (in Aeach drawer) tothe number of spaces which are provided forholding the current supply. These compartments are designed to be utilized for holding the surplus stock of tickets. The front wall of the drawer and the transverse partitions 26, 27 and 31 are each thick enough so that labels or inscriptions can be placed on their upper 1GOV edges. The sales-compartments and the storage-compartments are thus adapted to be similarly labeled. They are preferably also similarly arranged, and in order to point this out I have applied reference-letters to the several compartments, using the letters to b, &c., for the sales-compartments and the letters A B, Sac., for the storage-compartments.

My improved ticket-cabinet may or may not be provid ed with an ordinary roll-curtain, as 41, by which all the drawers can be inclosed and the cabinet enabled to be locked by means of a single lock.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a ticket-cabinet, card-ticket-holding drawers containing a multiplicity of compartments with bottoms inclined to the rear and open fronts, substantially as and for the purn pose specilied.

2. In a ticket-cabinet, card-ticket-holding drawers containing a multiplicity of compartments with bottoms inclined to the rear having open spaces at the points where the fingers of the ticket-seller are inserted, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a ticket-cabinet, card-ticket-holding drawers containing a multiplicity of compartments with bottoms inclined to the rear, and having ribs on the vertical side walls of said compartments, substantially as shown and described.

4C. In a ticket-cabinet, cardtiChet-holding drawers containing a multiplicity of compartments with bottoms inclined to the rear having open spaces at the point where thc lingers of the seller are inserted, and having ribs on the walls of the compartment just in liront oi the points to which the tickets extend when placed therein, substantiall y as shown and described.

5. In a ticket-cabinet, card-ticket-holding drawers, having inclined false bottoms with spaces below them, and ribs extending` vertically along the sides of the compartments at a point intermediate the ends of said compartment, thus providing a ticket-holding` space behind said ribs and over said inclined bottom, and a space for the insertion olt the iingers ol the seller in lront of said ribs, sub stantially as set forth. l

6. A drawer vfor ticket-cabinets, containing` a series ol compartments with inclined bottoms for containing the current supply ol tickets from which individual sales are made and a second series oll compartments for containing the stock of tickets from which the iirstnamed compartments may be replenished.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 18th day of March, A. D. 1904.

ALBERT H. SELLARS.

itnessesz CHESTER BRADFORD, JAMES A. WTALSH. 

